In the darkness, the sound of footsteps came from far and near.

Tian Qi couldn't help but get nervous, Lao Qiu's face was more terrifying than a ghost in his mind, and the muscles all over his body couldn't help but tighten, if it weren't for Pang Xie pressing his shoulder, I'm afraid he couldn't help jumping up.

Li Dayong was also nervous in his heart, but he was finally a disciple of the Daomen, a soldier who had been on the battlefield, had experienced the experience of death, and could still control his actions and not show it like Tian Qi.

Pang Xie sat cross-legged, one hand lightly pressed on Tian Qi's shoulder to keep him from being too nervous, and the other hand gently rubbed the black scales.

After a few minutes, the footsteps got closer and closer, and a faint light gradually illuminated the surroundings, Tian Qi couldn't help but poke his head out, wanting to see who was coming.

"Professor Yang, why did you come along?"

In the intertwining of light and shadow, Tian Qi hadn't seen the person clearly, and Pang Xie had already said with a smile.

"Who?" exclaimed one of the visitors.

"Huh?" Tian Qi and Li Dayong were both stunned.

"Is it Brother Pang?" asked softly, and the person who spoke was Yang Yan.

"It's me. ”

Pang Xie stood up, Tian Qi and Li Dayong also stood up, and walked from the shadows to the light together.

Under the dim light, Yang and his party staggered over, and at a glance, they were quite embarrassed.

There were a few more dark red blood stains on Yang Huxing's body, I don't know if it was his own or someone else's, Zhao Huxing's face was pale, his left arm was bent back, twisted into a weird angle, it seemed to be useless, Xiaotian was much worse than Zhao Huxing, his body was covered with blood, and his cheeks were still a little abnormal blue-gray, which was a symptom of snake venom.

Yang showed a wry smile, arched his hand at Pang Xie, and said: "If you don't listen to good people, you will suffer a loss in front of you, we didn't listen to the words of the little brother, and today we will suffer a big loss." ”

"What the hell is going on?" asked Ponsei.

Yang let out a long sigh and recounted what had just happened.

When the three of them rushed out of the cave, Lao Qiu's palm wound was already good, and the snake group surrounded the entrance of the cave, the three of them saw that the situation was not good, and knew that the front could not stop Lao Qiu, so they decided to divide the troops into three ways, separate heads to break through, if someone was caught up by Lao Qiu, then swear to the death, to create a little chance for the remaining two to escape, as a result of the three, Lao Qiu picked Zhao Huxing, the two fought only a few moves, Zhao Huxing was seriously injured, a left arm was twisted by Lao Qiu.

Compared with Xiaotian's encounter, Zhao Huxing was lucky, Xiaotian rushed directly into the snake group, at first the snakes avoided it, and the spray on her body seemed to work, but unexpectedly, when she rushed into the middle of the snake group, Lao Qiu suddenly blew a whistle, the whistle sounded, and the group of snakes moved together, and rushed towards Xiaotian together, if it wasn't for Yang pacing to help, I was afraid that Xiaotian would be buried under the snake's mouth.

Yang saw that the situation was not good, and knew that it was impossible to rush out, so he rescued Zhao Huxing and Xiaotian, and the three of them fled back to the stone cave, and after trying to get rid of Lao Qiu's pursuit, they fled into the depths of the stone cave, and then later, the three of them chased all the way along the direction of the air flow, but they walked slower, and only then did they catch up with Pang Xie and others.

Pang Xie listened to it in his ears, and he was a little more wary of Yang pacing.

The three of them rushed out of the cave together, and Lao Qiu picked Zhao Huxing, this is because Zhao Huxing is unlucky, or Yang Pacing has done tricks and feet, it is difficult to judge, however, when Yang Pacing and Xiao Tian broke through separately, with his cultivation, he would rush into the snake group one step slower than Xiao Tian, which is inevitably suspicious.

Besides, Lao Qiu's strange power is unstoppable, and there are snakes sweeping from the side, Yang Pacing can still save these two people in this unfavorable situation, if you want to say that there is no effort to press the bottom of the box, I am afraid that no one will believe it.

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"Professor Yang, how did you get rid of Lao Qiu's pursuit, and how long will it take for him to catch up?" Li Dayong couldn't help but ask.

"When I entered the mountain this time, I brought a bottle of high-concentration anesthetic with me, which was used on Lao Qiu just now, but I don't think he was greatly affected, and I'm afraid I won't be able to delay him for long. Yang explained.

Pang Xie nodded slightly, it turned out that there was such a thing, no wonder Yang Pacing dared to fight Lao Qiu, but judging from the fact that Yang Pacing and the others quickly fled the battlefield and did not take the opportunity to counterattack, the effect of anesthetics on Lao Qiu was limited.

"Along the way, we were all nervous, worried that Lao Qiu would catch up at any time, but now that we meet you, we are finally relieved. Yang said.

"What should we do now? Turn around and go out? Or continue to move on?" Li Dayong frowned and asked, this was asking Yang Pacing, Pang Xie, and even more so himself.

"It's definitely not okay to go back. Pang Xie was the first to say: "With Lao Qiu's ability alone, we can't resist it, not to mention that there are snakes to help, going back is a dead end, unless Professor Yang still has any ability to press the bottom of the box that has not been revealed." ”

Yang shook his head again and again and said: "This old Qiu is too powerful, when I ran for my life just now, I had already exhausted my back hand, and I didn't have any effort to press the bottom of the box." ”

"It looks like we're going to have to move on. Li Dayong asked.

"That's not right. Yang spoke out in opposition.

"Why?" asked Ponche.

"There's some inside story, but I'm afraid you won't believe it. Yang said.

"Professor Yang, but it's okay to talk about it, everyone is a grasshopper on a rope, is there anything else that can't be said?" said Pang Xie.

Yang pondered for a moment and said, "Before Xiao Tian and I came, Elder Zhao told you that he tricked you here to sacrifice the python spirit in the Black Dragon Valley for blood, do you believe this statement?"

"It's hard to tell the real from the fake. Pang Xie said, the corners of Li Dayong's mouth twitched, as if he wanted to say something, but he didn't say it.

"A few years ago, I got an ancient book, which is a note written by a person surnamed Shi during the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, which recorded such an incident. ”

"There is a black python in Qinling Mountain, which has been practicing for thousands of years, and has been born with two horns, and has been transformed into a dragon, only one step away from being able to turn into a dragon, get rid of mortal origin, and enter the heavenly court, but somehow, the black snake mistakenly violated the rules of heaven and was captured by the ancestor of the Quanzhen Sect at that time, Xuanxu Dao Chang. ”

"After the Xuanxu Dao Master captured it, he didn't take its life because it didn't make a mistake on purpose, but laid out a formation to suppress it in a valley, and this valley was the Black Dragon Valley. ”

"Decades later, the Xuanxu Dao drove the crane to the west, and the arranged formation gradually became incomplete, and the black snake gradually broke away from the seal, causing trouble around the Black Dragon Valley, and the surrounding people also suffered a lot, until later another master surnamed Luo came to capture the black snake again, and asked the black snake to swear that he would never leave the Black Dragon Valley, and then floated away. ”

"This Shi Juren has some friendship with this master surnamed Luo, a drunken chat, listening to this master said, this black snake in the Black Dragon Valley is about to take off the mortal womb, eat it a bite of meat can avoid all diseases, if you can eat snake gall bladder, you can live for a hundred years. ”

"There is such a good thing, why don't you eat it yourself?" Tian Qi couldn't help but ask.

Yang paced and smiled, and said: "At that time, the Quanzhen Dao was powerful, and the demons suppressed by the ancestors of the previous generation of Quanzhen, without the permission of the Quanzhen Sect, who would dare to kill them without permission?"

"This donor was not young at the time, after hearing about this, he suddenly became interested, greedy for the spiritual flesh on the black snake, begged hard, wanted the master surnamed Luo to shoot again, took the snake gall on the black snake, the master surnamed Luo naturally refused to agree, the person begged in every way, the master surnamed Luo was too annoyed by him, so he said I will not take it, if you have the ability to take it, you go to take it yourself, so he passed him a way to take the black snake gall. ”

"Is this the method of blood sacrifice?" asked Ponsei interjected.

"Not bad. ”

"What does this have to do with our current situation?" Tian Qi was a little puzzled.

Yang Pacing said: "According to the note, the black snake is hidden in the grotto under the Black Dragon Valley, according to the description in the book, the situation in the grotto is not much different from the environment around us, it is very likely to be here, I am worried that we will continue to move forward, I will not meet the legendary black python, and I am afraid it will be too late to find a way." ”

"But weren't you here to kill snakes in the first place, why are you worried about meeting them?" said Pang Xie's brow.

"We plan to use the blood sacrifice method to lure the black snake out after arranging the mechanism in the valley, not to fight it head-on. ”

"I see. ”

"Brother Pang actually doesn't doubt my words?" Yang was a little surprised.

Pang Xie shook his head slightly, handed over the black scales he had just picked up, and explained, "This is what I just picked up nearby, it doesn't look like snake scales." ”

Yang paced the scales, looked back and forth a few times, and handed them to Zhao Huxing, and the two nodded together.

"Could it be that there are really immortals and monsters in this world?" Tian Qi couldn't help but ask, until this moment, he couldn't believe that what others said was true.

It's just that everyone has their own thoughts, and no one answered for a while.

Pang Xie was silent for a long time, and said: "The notes mentioned by Professor Yang do have some consistency with our current situation, which is completely inconsistent with the stories circulating in the three villages, I don't know what the problem is." ”

Yang nodded, he also thought of this question.

"That story was told by Lao Qiu, there must be something wrong with him! He must have lied to us at the beginning!" Tian Qi hurriedly said.

"The story told by Lao Qiu can be verified by asking someone in Sanjia Village, and there is no need for him to lie about it. Ponsie said.

"You can't go in and you can't go in, and you don't dare to retreat, so what should we do?" Tian Qi asked.

After a moment of silence, Pang Xie suddenly said: "No, the surname Luo harbors evil intentions, and the surname Shi is not a good person. ”

As soon as the words came out, the other people were stunned, but they didn't expect Pang Xie to still ponder this.

"Between life and death, there is a great terror, the surname Luo is also a cultivator, of course he will understand this truth, and naturally he can also think of how much the world is willing to pay for immortality, blood sacrifice to more than 100 people, in our opinion, it is a big thing, but in the eyes of some people, it is just a small price, but he actually said this method, isn't he afraid of damaging yin virtue?

"These two people, one is cruel and the other is vicious, and they are not good people, which Professor Yang will not fail to see. So Professor Yang, how can you believe that such two people would write the truth in their notes, instead of making things up?"

When Pang Xie said this, he suddenly raised his head and looked directly at Yang Pacing.